FLYING TO GOLF
j PRINCE OF WALES’ EXAMPLE. j LONDON, December 30. Since the Prince of Wales lias begun flying to golf, this habit has been growing in England among busy men who want to get to the course in the quickest possible time. Golf club secretaries are now realising the need to cater for flying golfers, and at the well-known course at Sunning there is a line level quarter of a mile of turf beside the sixth fairway. At week-ends there are often three or four aeroplanes parked there. Several of the members own aeroplanes and when’ one was asked whether flying upset his golf in the same, way as a fast drive in a car leads to unsteadiness ,on the (putting green, lie replied, “Not in the slightest.” In the clubhouse at Sunning there is a curious trophy which is competed for annually in a match between Sunning and a,n Air Force team. Tin's is the propeller of the first pterodactyl (or tailless) aeroplane. One blade of the propeller is badly cracked, an injury caused by a pencil which was blown from the pilot’s hand while he was making notes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1932, Page 8
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192FLYING TO GOLF Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1932, Page 8
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